News (152)

  • Microsoft confirms Windows shuffle

    Microsoft on Monday confirmed plans to reshuffle its Windows unit, shifting executives and creating a new division more tightly focused on development efforts.

  • Merchant takeup key to Visa AU security push

    Card specialist Visa today launched a "Verified by Visa" authentication service in Australia - but it will do little to improve security unless it is uniformly adopted by merchants.

  • Time to get real

    There's nothing we can do... we're living in an environment of uncertainty--or are we?

  • Microsoft cuts apps from Windows 7

    Microsoft has decided that Windows 7 won't include built-in programs for e-mail, photo editing, and movie making, as was done with Windows Vista.

  • Microsoft moves on after Yahoo break-up

    In the wake of Microsoft's decision to pull its Yahoo offer, executives are trying to make the case that Redmond's online business can go it alone.

More News >

Features and Case Studies (39)

  • Windows Server 2003 crawls over finish line

    Microsoft has finally launched Windows Server 2003, the first product it has delivered since introducing the "trustworthy computing" initiative just over a year ago.

  • Software Assurance not so assuring?

    Microsoft has added disaster recovery aid to its Software Assurance maintenance plan but analysts question the sincerity of the offering.

  • Worm's spread shows holes in patch system

    The MSBlast worm supports the view that patches, while necessary to increase the security of specific computers, can't be relied upon to protect large networks.

  • Can IT directors love Microsoft?

    A shift in corporate IT's priorities might play to Microsoft's advantage, but it will take a quasi-religious conversion to get IT directors to accept the Microsoft way.

  • Managing the upgrade cycle

    There were two things that really made me do a double take when looking at the results of our software survey: the high number of users who had upgraded to the latest Windows operating systems, and the high number of those users who wish they were using something else (an open source solution perhaps?).

More Features and Case Studies >

Reviews (15)

  • Microsoft to abandon standalone IE

    The software giant is phasing out standalone versions of its Internet Explorer Web browser, according to statements attributed to IE's program manager on its Web site.

  • Microsoft may be scoring own goal with IE plans

    Customers and analysts say Microsoft is forcing its most important partners to use competing browsers by its move to integrate IE with Windows.

  • Microsoft plays browser games

    News analysis: Following its recent settlement with AOL, Microsoft has let slip that it will stop making Internet Explorer as a standalone product. But what does this mean for users?

  • Has Microsoft got it write? Five Tablet PCs tested

    Microsoft is pushing Tablet PC as the next evolutionary phase of notebooks. We check out the first Tablet PCs available in Australia, as well as looking at the OS that underpins it all.

  • Can IT directors love Microsoft?

    Commentary: A shift in corporate IT's priorities might play to Microsoft's advantage, but it will take a quasi-religious conversion to get IT directors to accept the Microsoft way.

More Reviews >

Create an e-mail alert for "windows"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
windows


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 7 .net
  2. Popularity: 3 antivirus
  3. Popularity: 8 apple
  4. Popularity: 4 chip
  5. Popularity: 3 collaboration
  6. Popularity: 3 computing
  7. Popularity: 5 desktop
  8. Popularity: 15 european union
  9. Popularity: 4 explorer
  10. Popularity: 3 flaw
  11. Popularity: 4 fraud
  12. Popularity: 3 free
  13. Popularity: 3 hackers
  14. Popularity: 4 hp
  15. Popularity: 4 ie
  16. Popularity: 6 intel
  17. Popularity: 6 internet
  18. Popularity: 3 it
  19. Popularity: 8 itanium
  20. Popularity: 29 linux
  21. Popularity: 4 longhorn
  22. Popularity: 17 microsoft
  23. Popularity: 5 ms
  24. Popularity: 3 msblast
  25. Popularity: 7 novell
  26. Popularity: 6 open
  27. Popularity: 10 open source
  28. Popularity: 5 open-source
  29. Popularity: 5 operating
  30. Popularity: 6 operating system
  31. Popularity: 7 os
  32. Popularity: 4 os x
  33. Popularity: 8 oss
  34. Popularity: 5 privacy
  35. Popularity: 8 red hat
  36. Popularity: 15 security
  37. Popularity: 5 server
  38. Popularity: 3 servers
  39. Popularity: 3 shankland
  40. Popularity: 9 software
  41. Popularity: 5 source
  42. Popularity: 5 sun
  43. Popularity: 4 system
  44. Popularity: 9 techrepublic
  45. Popularity: 6 virtualisation
  46. Popularity: 7 virus
  47. Popularity: 7 vista
  48. Popularity: 5 vulnerability
  49. Popularity: 4 web services
  50. Popularity: 5 worm

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • David Braue NBN needs workers on board
    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
  • Array D'Ascenzo: Read p23 of security review
    Following yesterday's admission by the Australian Taxation Office that its courier had lost a CD containing the details of 3,000 self-managed super funds, it wants to review how it handles information. My suggestion: go back to the review completed in April.
  • Array Opening the floodgates on missing drives
    News headlines about portable storage devices going missing are as common as muck, but the problem could be even more widespread than you suspect.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured